Steve Irons (Swan, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I would like to remind the member for Rankin that when his people were in government we had similar questions going on. I would also like to remind him about the $900 cheques. Pink batts was brought to the coalition by the previous government and they knocked it back; it was ripped up. But it was grabbed by the Labor government—and look what they did. They made an absolute disaster of it.

Going back to that speech the parliamentary secretary made last year, he talked about the divestment of Defence Force assets. He recently did divest the Lady Gowrie childcare centre from the Commonwealth, which was a win-win for the government and the local community. Can the parliamentary secretary provide an update on how this government is working to better align the government's non-Defence property portfolio with current and future needs? Also, how are the interests of local communities being taken into consideration in the government's property divestment program?

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